midnightstar | A SURPRISE LENALEE APPROACHES; Command?

Despite all of everything the Black Order has been through, it was business as usual for the various teams. Lenalee and Allen were in one team with Miranda and a few Finders. Lucky them, their mission took them to the mountains - beautiful scenery, but cold weather. Fortunately they managed to find a small inn with vacancies, so they could stay indoors. Amazingly, Miranda was actually sleeping more peacefully than Lenalee at the moment.

Although after all of the scenarios and seeing all of the deaths in the war with the Earl and fighting the akuma, (...not to mention what she personally has been through), it really should come as no surprise that Lenalee's sleep was less than restful. While she managed to snatch an hour or two here and there of sleep, worries about her friends, her brother, and one exorcist in particular all contributed to making her nightmare particularly bloody and gruesome. When she jerked awake for the second time that night (or was it third, she wasn't sure), she knew she wouldn't be able to get back to sleep right away, so she silently slipped out of her room, padding down the hall. Maybe a glass of water would settle her nerves.

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Walking was not a thing Lenalee was capable of doing. Dancing on air would be a better description of how light her steps were at his words - euphoric even, so totally smitten and tunnel-visioned on him that a train of Komurin riding Elephants could stampede through and she wouldn't notice.

She was fine with staying close to him all the same though, her arm resting around his waist as she paced along with him with a dreamy, happy smile on her lips. Such a simple, emotional sentiment like that, to make her so happy! Though she had to shake her head a little to focus enough to not take a wrong turn to her own bedroom.

Hopefully she wouldn't invocate her innocence to do just that or it would get the attention of everyone for sure. Not that Allen would have really minded it. Still seeing her so high on cloud nine because of those simple words. He couldn't help but love that cute side of her even more.

Soon enough or rather sooner than either of them realized, they were standing in front of the door to Lenalee's bedroom. "We...got here quickly." He admitted with surprise.

"Already?" Allen wasn't the only one surprised by how swiftly their path had come to an end. She stared at her door a moment, "Somehow.. I thought it was further than it is," she admitted sheepishly, chuckling as she reached out to open the door and let them both in.

"That makes two of us." Allen chuckled before Lenalee did the honors of letting them both into her room, Allen stepping in after the girl and closing the door behind them both, making sure it was closed properly. Alone at last. Well not quite. Alone with Lenalee at least would be more apt.

Lenalee chuckled, stepping into her room ahead of Allen and scanning it out of habit Relaxing the instant Allen made sure the door was closed properly, she padded over to drop lightly on the bed with a sigh. "Phew. Haha, I wasn't sure I was going to make it for a while there." As far as wanting to touch and hold him more closely, during lunch.

Luckily the room was still completely devoid of anything other than the two of them. Which in turn meant he was free to sit next to Lenalee on the bed before he automatically reached for her hand and pulled her up close to his chest.

"Well we made it through that and now it's just the two of us until the morning~" Allen said, his voice growing deeper for a moment there.

Lenalee felt herself smile more when he reached for her, her body immediately turning to press against his. There was a slight pause at the deeper tone of voice, but it inevitably met with Lenalee's approval, and she raised her arms to loop behind his neck. "And no distractions or interruptions." she murmured softly, leaning closer with a playful smile.

Allen almost outright pulled her into his lap when she leaned in close. To be honest he really wanted nothing more than to feel her against him. And now he could definitely achieve that without fear or any more interruptions.

"Do you...want to slip into something more comfortable first?" he asked, nose almost brushing against Lenalee's

Lenalee was about to point out that her outfit was pretty comfortable without the jacket- but a realization, and a better idea, popped into her head. "Ah... yeah...actually I should... I do." she tugged away, "Just... give me a moment." She didn't have a separate changing room, but she -did- have a large screen she used to change behind. Once Allen let her up, she made a quick detour to her bureau and grabbed something, then scuttled off behind said screen.

And that was an answer he would have accepted without question. But then whatever Lenalee thought of seemed to kick into gear and for a moment He watched Lenalee disappear behind the folding screen before quickly snapping his eyes front like a gentleman would. That lasted all about a minute before he slowly peeked over his shoulder.

Pretty folding screen! Well that and the hint of a feminine figure moving behind it, hesitating more than once. "So.. um.. Allen --" she started to say, paused a bit longer, and then seemed to shake her head. Whatever it was, she was going to keep it to herself to surprise him. After a few minutes, there's a soft mutter of "there" indicating she had finishsed, though she ..still doesn't emerge from behind the changing screen.

....maybe she was worried about his reaction.

What if the shock was too much for him!

Very pretty indeed though the figure moving around behind it was much prettier. Of course Allen had a bias but really who wouldn't in his position.

"Yes Lenalee?" He answered only for Lenalee to seemingly decide to keep it to herself. Well if she wanted help or had any big problem she would tell him surely? So he waited instead, however no longer trying to hide himself from looking over to where Lenalee was taking care of whatever she was doing.

And she started to step out, only to see him watching already - quickly she ducked behind the screen, "Hey, no peeking!" It's.. the principle of the matter! Although even -she- could see the ridiculousness of the statement considering he's seen her in less. But perhaps there was someting about her idea that would lose the effect if he was watching her come out!

"ah! S-Soorry about that."

Allen flinched and quickly turned his eyes away from the panel standing a bit more straight in his posture while he listened intently to Lenalee instead. Since he couldn't see he would listen closely. That was his reasoning anyway. Still simply listening would not tell him that much about what was coming in the first place.

Well he was eager, so that was good right? Still, Lenalee pouted a bit for a second. "Allen...? Do you remember what you told me about your dream before?"

That's aaaaaaaaaaaall the clue he's gonna get, but when he does turn to look at Lenalee -- well it's not -QUITE- like the dream since, obviously no tent. But she'd changed into what looked like a night shirt with several buttons undone. The length of it reaching to about just above mid-thigh, but the body language of her stance - clearly said 'look at me'. She even was striking a sultry pose, with her hands running through her hair and lifting it off of her shoulders a bit.

Please don't die.

"I...do?" Allen answered before his heart started racing once again this time for a different reason. No...surely she wouldn't...would she? Allen didn't think she'd go that far but maybe that was his conceit.Whatever the case the moment Lenalee stepped out from behind the screen, he slowly turned his gaze around. Only for his jaw to suddenly fall slack as he saw that pose and state of clothing Lenalee was in.

It was..a perfect....no it was even better than what he had imagined. And it was right there....in front of him. Lenalee was there in reality in that pose and giving him that look that almost threatened to send him out cold. But no he couldn't do that. He wanted to enjoy this moment and Lenalee herself as well.

"I...am I dreaming all of a sudden?"

Oh thank you Anita for those tips, Lenalee mentally whispered, seeing the look on Allen's face. It was better than she had hoped for. Still that question almost made her giggle - she smiled softly instead, taking small steps forward to draw nearer. "Why would you think that..?" she reached out with a hand to gently touch his cheek, "Does that feel like a dream?"

Thank you Anita indeed. To think the more experienced woman had shared so many of her secret tricks with Lenalee. Oh if Komui knew he would probably cry tears of blood. Instead Allen could only look in awe as Lenalee drew closer.

"IT doesn't no...but I never thought I would see you like this outside of my dream..." Allen confessed before he adjusted his position on the side of her bed the closer Lenalee got. His eyes drank in her entire form from clothes to the curves of eher body as they were barely hidden behind her disheveled garments.

Lenalee giggled a little nervously, "Well..." She paused, and sat down beside him, "It's not a dream. But since you told me about it, I wanted.. to do this for you." With her own twist, ofcourse.

"Well I can safely say you've blown the fantasy completely out of the water. I....just can't stop looking at you. At every part of you that makes up this look of yours right now. You are...beyond beautiful. Not even Irresistible would do it justice" Allen confessed.

"Actually there is...another part of that fantasy....Could you sit against your pillows for me?"

Lenalee's face went red at the high praise, though she was more than a little pleased that it went over so well, "Re--Really.. good.." How the heck was she supposed to top herself now? Dangit. Oh wait - "Another part?" She blinked, "Oh..! Sure um... let me just ..." She scooted back on her bed a bit until she was sitting against her pillows, tucking her legs to the side. "Like this?"

Her legs were exactly what Allen was after, as Lenalee would discover the moment Allen ran his leg over her foot before his fingers tenderly brushed over the scars at her ankles. He frowned faintly imagining how much getting these must have hurt for Lenalee. He didn't know if her new form caused her pain during activation either.

Even so just as she had accepted every part of him, so too did Allen intend to do the same as he suddenly bent over Lenalee's legs and...pressed his lips to a scar on her ankle.

She wasn't sure what to expect from him, so she watched him patiently, confusion in her eyes when he brushed his hand over the cross shaped scars there. "Alle-" her words ended in an abrupt squeak of surprise, her face flushing even more at the intimate gesture. Intimate..but not one without meaning.

He looked up at her with upturned eyes while he still pressed his warm lips to those scars on her ankles taking care to pay his respects to each pair in sequence.

"As much as I don't know about this part of you...I still love it every bit as much as I love the whole." Allen murmured before he pulled away at least and leaned up to finally press his lips to Lenalee's again. Hopefully watching him move so slowly but deliberately wouldn't eliminate whatever ideas she had cooking before he turned on the charm to eleven.

Red as an apple, she was, her heart pounding hard enough that it almost hurt - it felt like it wanted to burst out through her rib cage. "O..ohallen.." she stammered softly, managing to exhale the two words as one.

How could she not love this man? He was everything to her- him and Komui both. Some women might get jealous, and say he should love her more than anything else -over the world, and claim he didn't love them enough for something silly like that. But like Allen would never demand she put him before Komui, she wouldn't treat Allen so disrespectfully.

They understood each other so well, it wasn't needed. Now...with all that on the table, with him turning the charm up to eleven like that, it was a little difficult for her to recall her own ideas -- not that she'd had a great many. She was sure it would come back to her - she brought her hands up to slide around him when he crawled up to kiss her.